IT professionals who work with Hyper-V on a regular basis might feel lost in a VMware environment, but some key similarities between the two offerings can provide a welcome sense of familiarity. Even ...

Data center management software maker SolarWinds Aug. 25 released a freely downloadable virtualization management tool for IT managers that enables automatic shutdown, restarting and usage tracking of ...

VMware Server 2.0 Beta is the next evolution in the free-as-in-beer virtualization line. It's able to run on both Linux and Windows and virtualize a wide range of guest operating systems. We tested ...

Here are some reasons why your Hyper-V virtual machines might fail to shut down and how you can troubleshoot this recurring issue. Occasionally, you may find that when you attempt to use the Hyper-V ...

Question - I need to be able to paste into a Win7 VM's KVM VirtManager console window as I would be able to if I used RDP (which I can't, see below). Background - I have a client that thinks it's ...

It’s time to reign in the virtual machine revolution taking over your network. In the first part of a series of testing-based articles looking at the various virtual machine management tools available ...

I utilize various third-party applications to remotely access Secure Shell (SSH) and Windows Virtual Machine (VM) console access. Putty is my SSH tool of choice for remotely accessing the VMware ESXi ...

This excerpt is from the book, Practical Virtualization Solutions: Virtualization from the Trenches published by Prentice Hall Professional, Oct. 2009, ISBN ...

I'm trying (and thus far failing!) to resolve an issue where a user connected to one vCenter can't open the web-based console to VMs managed by another vCenter in the same SSO domain (and therefore ...